Tagged: Built environment
CCC response to call for evidence from National Flood Resilience Review
In response to a call for evidence, the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change made two written submissions to the National Flood Resilience Review. The Submission to the NFRR call for evidence outlines the the various peer reviewed projects commissioned by the ASC relating to current and future vulnerability to flooding in England and the UK. The Submission to the NFRR on immediate measures provides the ASC’s analysis of the immediate action that can be taken …
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Met Office for the ASC: Developing H++ climate change scenarios
This report describes the results of a project to investigate the development of plausible high-end climate change scenarios. It covers the following climate hazards: heat waves, cold snaps, low and high rainfall, droughts, floods and windstorms. An independent report, it has been produced for the Adaptation Sub-Committee to help inform the UK 2017 climate change risk assessment.
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Second UK Climate Change Risk Assessment gathers pace
A lot of attention is paid to the global impacts of climate change; melting Arctic ice, coastal flooding and coral bleaching to name a few. But what are the risks to the UK from rising global temperatures? The CCC’s Head of Adaptation, Daniel Johns, looks ahead to the second Climate Change Risk Assessment.
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Sayers for the ASC: Projections of future flood risk in the UK
This assessment, part of the ASC’s work ahead of the next UK climate change risk assessment in 2017, looks at future flood risk. It considers three climate change scenarios and three population growth projections: low, high and no growth. For the first time the analysis presented covers the whole of the UK and the risks associated with coastal, fluvial, surface water and groundwater flooding.
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Government response to 2015 progress report
This set of three documents comprises the Government’s response to the CCC and ASC’s joint 2015 progress report, ‘Reducing emissions and preparing for climate change.’
CCC response to call for evidence from House of Lords built environment select committee
A written statement from the Committee on Climate Change in response to a call for evidence from the built environment select committee of the House of Lords. The built environment select committee was established on 11 June 2015 “to consider the development and implementation of national policy for the built environment”. The CCC submission covers both mitigation and adaptation, and highlights key findings and recommendations from the 2015 CCC and …
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Urgent action needed now to avoid increasing costs and impacts of climate change in the UK
Early action in the new Parliament is needed to keep the UK’s emissions reductions on track and to adapt to climate change, the Committee on Climate Change says today.
Reducing emissions and preparing for climate change: 2015 Progress Report to Parliament
This is the Committee’s first report to the new Parliament and the first report under sections 36 and 59 of the Climate Change Act, covering both progress towards meeting carbon budgets and progress on adaptation to climate change. It includes the CCC’s first ever statutory assessment of the National Adaptation Programme. The report comes in 3 volumes: Reducing emissions and preparing for climate change: 2015 Progress …
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